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Provide Candidate ID to Question Writer Tracker
Here's another useful tip if you're sending quiz takers to Question Writer Tracker, but have their id and don't want them to enter it a second time.
You can provide their ID in the URL to automatically have the ID embedded in the quiz.
An example:
If your quiz location is
http://www.questionwritertracker.com/quiz/47/H4P9E3K7.html
you can embed the user id like this
http://www.questionwritertracker.com/quiz/47/myuserid/H4P9E3K7.html
The candidate will show up on your reports as 'myuserid'. This technique works with one time use tokens too.
It'll usually be a good idea to launch a new window without an address bar when using this technique so that the user can't change the URL himself.
Posted by Alexander on March 19, 2009 | Provide Candidate ID to Question Writer Tracker| TrackBack
Order Quiz Results by Time Spent
Here's another useful little feature - you can now order the result sets by the amount of time the user spent taking the quiz on Question Writer Tracker. You can usually identify a user who got bored during a quiz or otherwise didn't make a proper effort at a quiz by looking at the overall time spent on the quiz.
Delete these response sets to improve the quality of the data. This allows you to better compare the relative difficulty of questions in your quiz or the overall averages without the 'click-thru' attempts polluting the data.
Posted by Alexander on March 14, 2009 | Order Quiz Results by Time Spent| TrackBack
One Time Use Token
Here's a useful new feature for Question Writer Tracker. You can create tokens for quizzes so that they can be taken one time only. The token is available as a URL - give the URL to a user and he will be able to use it once, and once only!
This is useful if you want to sell access to quizzes you've created or you think users might be peeking at feedback answers ahead of submitting their own answers.
To create tokens, you need to upload at least one quiz to the Question Writer Tracker, then click on 'Quizzes' in the online interface. Click on the quiz you want to create tokens for and choose how many tokens to make. Now you can give one of the token URLs to each participant.
Posted by Alexander on March 13, 2009 | One Time Use Token| TrackBack
Improving Image Quality - Tips
If import images in your Quiz are blurry or of a low quality, there's a few things that can help a lot with image quality.
Most importantly, change the Advanced Setting, Jpeg Image Quality to a high value - 100 is the top value. Be careful with this though - the higher this is set, the larger the file size will become.
Flash saved as version 8 will also display a better resolution image, so change the Advanced Setting, Publish as Flash Version to '8'. Most everyone has version 9 or better by now so this is really a no-brainer.
You can also force the image to be displayed at its native resolution by switching off the Image Zooming (Advanced Setting), and then in web settings, switch off 'Maximize Quiz in Browser'.
You'll need to republish your quiz after changing any of the options to see the new results.
Posted by Alexander on March 9, 2009 | Improving Image Quality - Tips| TrackBack
Track UserID from CMS
Here's a helpful little technical tip for tracking users from your existing login system through to the Question Writer Tracker. Question Writer quizzes can take a parameter 'sourceid' and the value of this parameter will automatically be added to the candidate field - the parameter goes into the HTML between the name and the sendURL - here's what the HTML fragment needs to look like -
. . . . . version:"7,0,19,0",name:"QWContent"},{sourceid:"12345ABCDE",sendURL:"http://www.quiz-software.com/result . . . . .
In this case, the candidate ID will be set as 12345ABCDE - whatever value you dynamically write into the HTML will show up as the candidate ID in the results e-mail and on the Question Writer Tracker.
Posted by Alexander on March 9, 2009 | Track UserID from CMS| TrackBack